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MISCELLANEOUS
Cavitt Corner. Used books, collectables,
furniture and antiques. 2100 Cavitt, Bryan.
979-822-6633.
MOTORCYCLE
01 Harley Buell blast 500 like new $3195.
98 Ninja ZXS6R exhaust, red, perfect
$4895. 281-960-6488
1994 Ninja 600R, runs great, $2600 obo,
739-2731.
2001 Kawsaki Ninja, 250-cc, runs great,
well kept, $2600. 764-6402
PETS
“A Home of their Own" holiday adoption
specials. (Best selection of cats and kit
tens is now!) The Cats Cradle 820-0599.
Adopt Pets: Dogs, Cats, Puppies, Kit
tens. Many purebreds. Brazos Animal
Shelter, 775-5755, www.shelterpets.org
AKC, OFA Choc Lab pups both parents
hunt. First shots, wormed, dew claws re
moved $300-$400. 220-3863
Sugargliders: Bathe & clip. $20- 1st visit.
979-696-2533.
Tame & leash-trained baby Sugargliders.
Call 696-2533. CD with book.
REAL ESTATE
Free quick over- the- net market analysis
of your property
www.AndrewSmithOnline.com or call 693-
7653. Century 21 broker
ROOMMATES
1 or 2 roommates needed in January.
$450/mo. Canyon Creek Townhomes.
Call 713-504-1889
1, 2, or 3 roommates needed in January,
$370 each plus 1/3 bills, great apartment
and amenities, call 694-3163.
1-F needed ASAP, 2bd/2bth condo,
$300/nego. Call 817-705-3476 or 693-
3997.
1-F needed for Spring semester, large
4bdrm/2bth house, S350/mo +1/4bills.
Great location near A&M and Blinn. Am
ber or Brooke 979-492-8838 or 575-7888.
1 -female needed asap for spring semester
4bd/2ba $325.75/mo +1/4bills. new house
803 Azalea 696-0128
1- Female roommate needed for spring se
mester, 4bd/2.5bth house, $3O0/mo.
+ 1/4bills. Please call Alisa or Jessica at
979-775-0381. Thanks.
1 -M needed to sublease Spring semester.
3bd/2ba house, on shuttle $317/mo
+1/3bills call John 694-7759
2- F needed in large 3/2 duplex, no pets,
$325/each +1/3bills. Call Jenny for details
680-8952.
2-roommates, huge Sbdrm loft apt. down
town Byran. $400/mo all bills paid. Clate
979-574-6669, Jake 979-257-9005.
3rd-guy needed in 3bdrm house for Spring
'03. $215/mo. Great location! 693-1777
F-roommate needed for 3/2 furnished
house. $350/mo., 817-371-5690
F-roommates needed 3/2 Bryan house
near Blinn/A&M $350/Vno +split bills, de
posit spacious rooms, fenced yard, cov
ered parking, pets allowed 823-0021.
Female roommate, new home 3/2/2, shut
tle, w/d. cable internet, $325 +1/3bills.
695-8074, 210-383-8524.
M/F needed asap for 2/1 apartment, $160
+ 1/3 electricity/ month, Ryan- 979-695-
9406, cell- 832-643-3434.
M/F roommate wanted 2/1.5 townhouse
close to campus masterbd with private
balcony $315 +1/2bills 979-574-7283
Male roommate to share 3/2 home, 5
blocks to TAMU, $400/mo. (with all utilit
ies) 512-567-8325, 979-693-2177.
Nice 3/2 house short distance to Blinn/
A&M. Everything furnished including bed
room suit. $350/mo +1/3util. 224-4400
Roommate needed for Spring semester,
$297/mo. +1/2bills. Call Clint 693-7864.
Seeking responsible/clean male room
mate to rent furnished room in 4/2 house
after Dec. 15th. Includes study, all kitchen
utensils and furniture. Nice front yard and
great backyard deck. $380/mo. Troy 979-
764-8822
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Consumers seek protection after
hearing of identity theft scheme
IF YOU ORDERED a 2003
Aggieland and will not be
on campus next fall to
pick it up, you can have
it mailed. To have your
yearbook for the '02-03
school year mailed,
stop by room 015 Reed
McDonald Building or
telephone 845-2613
(credit cards only)
between 8:30 a.m. and
4:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday and
pay a $7 mailing and
handling fee.
Cash, Check, Aggie Bucks,
Visa, MasterCard,
American Express and
Discover accepted.
NEW YORK (AP)
Numerous consumers moved to
try to protect their finances and
credit lines Tuesday, a day after
prosecutors warned that thou
sands of people were vulnerable
to a high-tech assault on their
identities after records were
stolen from a software compa
ny.
“It’s just been a deluge,” said
Jay Foley, director of consumer
and victims services at the
Identity Theft Resource Center.
The San Diego-based nonprofit
organization, which helps vic
tims of identity theft, was
among several agencies nation
wide swamped with calls
Tuesday.
Callers were worried they
might be victims of a massive
scheme to steal credit infonna-
tion from thousands of people.
Losses from the scam were put
at $2.7 million and could grow
as more victims are identified.
U.S. Attorney James B.
Comey said Monday that prose
cutors were still trying to learn
how many people had their bank
accounts drained, addresses
changed, lines of credit opened
and new credit cards opened
without their approval.
He said almost all the fraudu
lent charges and withdrawals
would be covered by financial
institutions. Prosecutors are
sending letters to victims that can
be used as proof to credit agen-
► Keep a close guard on personal
information. Don’t throw any
information pertaining to your
access codes, Social Security
number or credit card numbers in
the trash.
► When choosing PIN numbers
and ID numbers, make sure they
are not easily replicated.
Guarding against
identity theft
Though identity theft can’t be
prevented, there are some ways
people can minimize their risk.
► Get your credit reports annually
from each of the three credit
bureaus. Equifax, Experian and
Trans Union.
► If your bills don’t arrive on time,
check with your creditor.
► Pay close attention to your
bills, criminals can charge to your
credit card or withdraw from your
bank account.
NOTE: For more information, go to the
Federal Trade Commission's Web site at
www.ftc.gov or call the toll-free phone
number at 877-IDTHEFT
SOURCES: Federal Trade Commission: Chubb Group of Insurers
cies and financial institutions.
Claudia Farrell, a Federal
Trade Commission spokes
woman in Washington, said
calls to a hot line for people
reporting identity fraud
increased 33 percent Monday,
while calls seeking infonnation
about identity theft doubled.
“I think there’s another
uptick today,” she said Tuesday.
Authorities said the scheme
began about three years ago
when Philip Cummings, an
employee at a Long Island soft
ware company, sold passwords
and codes for downloading con
sumer credit reports to an
unidentified person.
Cummings, 33, of
Cartersville. Ga., was released
on $5(X).(XX) bond after a court
appearance in Manhattan on
Monday at which he did not
speak. The FBI also charged
two other men in the case.
Officials credited the Ford
Motor Credit Co., the world’s
largest automotive finance com
pany, with discovering the fraud
last winter.
Personal information belong
ing to some 30,000 people was
stolen, authorities said. Included
were 15.000 credit reports
stolen from Experian. a credit
history bureau, using passwords
belonging to Ford Motor Credit
Corp., a finance arm of Ford
Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich.,
officials said. A message left
with Experian was not immedi
ately returned Tuesday.
Melinda Wilson, a spokes
woman for the Ford credit com
pany, said only a few Ford cus
tomers were affected and the
company, a victim itself, went to
authorities immediately.
“We didn’t know what we
had at first. We just kept digging
and digging and unraveling and
pulling, trying to get to the bot
tom of it.” she said. "This was a
breach that was made falsely in
our name and. as such, it was
deeply disturbing.”
Libby Hutchinson, a spokes
woman for the Washington
Mutual Finance Co., said the
company, based in Crossville,
Term., had sent out 6,(XX) letters
to warn people that its access
codes had been stolen.
“We’re not aware of any
amount of money that anyone
has lost. Sadly, that might
change,” she said, noting an
increase in inquiries by the pub
lic since Monday.
Some people w ho got letters
“were concerned, actually think
ing we were trying to scam
them,” she said.
“We had to assure them it
was legit and gave them con
tacts at the FBI and other law
enforcement agencies,” she
said.
China opens first suicide prevention center
BEIJING (AP) — One day next week,
three nurses will sit down at telephones in
Beijing and do something that would have
been unheard of in China just a decade ago:
They’ll try to stop anyone who calls from
committing suicide.
As 1.3 billion people cope with the most
sweeping changes their nation has ever expe
rienced, China’s first suicide research and
prevention center is opening in the capital
with a lengthy list of priorities — everything
from intervening in emergencies to changing
outdated attitudes about mental health.
It’s a tall order for a populace accustomed
to centuries of gritting their teeth through
hard times and coping with “chiku” — a tra
ditional metaphor for enduring hardship that
means, literally, “eating bitter.”
“The changing culture and society have
given us an opening,” said Dr. Michael R.
Phillips, executive director of the new
Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention
Center and a physician in China for 18 years.
The center, which opens next week,
employs 1 1 doctors and 13 nurses, most of
them Chinese. It will offer a range of ser
vices, from the toll-free hot line, to counsel
ing and crisis intervention, to comprehensive
research — already under way — on suicide
and attitudes toward it.
But doctors see an entirely non-clinical
NEWS IN BRIEF
As China develops, we
have to pay more attention
to this kind of health issue.
— Zhang Jianshu
Beijing Bureau of Health official
development as the most significant sign of
changing attitudes: The center is at a pub
lic facility, Huilongguan Hospital, and is
being funded quite willingly by Beijing’s
city government.
“Suicide and depression, they're definite
ly something that goes hand in hand with our
fast development,” said Zhang Jianshu. an
official at the Beijing Bureau of Health,
which contributed $242,000. “As China
develops, we have to pay more attention to
this kind of health issue.”
Though there is no standard reporting
system for deaths in China, researchers using
available figures extrapolate that 287,000
Chinese kill themselves each year, making
suicide the No. 5 cause of death in the
world’s most populous country. Some 2 mil
lion Chinese try to kill themselves annually.
Even more alarming to researchers:
Suicide is the No. 1 cause of death for
Chinese ages 15 to 34, and women have a 25
percent higher rate than men. In addition,
rural suicide rates are three times as high as
urban rates.
“Clearly, this is one of modem China’s
most important issues,” said Dr. Liang
Hong, the center’s clinical services director
and head of the China end of the
International Depression Project, a research
consortium with fellow developing nations
India and Colombia.
“Older people don’t know much about
mental health. People in the countryside,
they have no idea they can get help,” she
said. “People in China don’t think this is
something to see a doctor about.”
Though the center is new, its physicians
have been doing research on suicide for
years. Their latest paper, on why and how
Chinese kill themselves, was compiled from
scores of interviews with suicide victims’
families and will be published Friday in the
British medical journal Lancet.
Beyond helping people directly, the cen
ter hopes to serve as a model — first for
Beijing’s 500 hospitals, and eventually for
the rest of the country. It is surveying 50 top
hospitals in the capital to determine how
they can start anti-suicide programs and
train doctors.
NEWS
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prostitution
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Man behind Wendy’s
robbery-murders
gets death penalty
NEW YORK (AP) — The
man behind a robbery-massacre
at a Wendy’s restaurant was sen
tenced to death Tuesday, more
than two years after he and an
accomplice herded seven
employees into a freezer and
murdered five of them.
John Taylor, 38, stood stone
faced as the jury’s decision was
read while the victims’ family
wept quietly in the courtroom. He
was sentenced to die by injection
for killing two of the employees,
but prosecutors say he plotted the
attack and commanded his men
tally retarded accomplice to kill.
Taylor joins five other men on
death row in New York. The state
has not executed an inmate since
1963.
According to prosecutors,
Taylor and Craig Godineaux
were eating in the Queens restau
rant just before closing.
Taylor’s lawyers admitted
their client shot Auguste, but
said Godineaux shot everyone
else. Prosecutors, however, said
Taylor planned the crime,
gunned down two people and
ordered Godineaux to kill the
rest.
Godineaux, 32, pleaded
guilty last year to shooting five
of the victims, three fatally. He
was ineligible for the death
penalty because he is retarded,
and instead received five life
sentences.
15-year-old unable
to identify person
she said raped her
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A
15-year-old girl who said she was
kidnapped and raped by a couple
she met over the Internet sur
prised prosecutors Monday by
failing to identify one of the
defendants.
After taking the witness stand,
the girl was asked if she saw
defendant James Warren in the
courtroom. Warren was sitting at
the defense table.
“No, I don’t see James
Warren here,’’ the girl replied.
“No.”
Asked by prosecutor Gregg
Turk in to describe her abuser, she
testified he was tall and had long
hair. Warren, who once had long
hair, now has a buzz cut.
The girl was to resume testify
ing Tuesday.
Authorities say Warren, 42,
and another defendant, Beth
Loschin, 47, took the teen from
Massachusetts to Long Island
after meeting her online last year.
They say the girl was held cap
tive for a week and sexually
abused by the couple and another
man before being rescued by
police.
Warren could serve 25 years
to life if convicted on charges
that include kidnapping, rape,
sodomy and attempted murder.
Defense attorney Dennis
Kelly said the alleged victim had
told Warren she was 18, old
enough to consent to sex.
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